A destroyed Soviet FAI-ZhD armored railcar lies beside a railway line during the summer of 1941, with members of its crew killed during the opening battles of the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Read more
A grim photograph from the summer of 1941 showing the bodies of Soviet soldiers lying unburied in a roadside ditch after the German advance into the Soviet Union. Read more
A haunting photograph from occupied Karelia showing the bodies of Soviet prisoners of war who died from exhaustion and starvation in captivity during the winter of 1941–1942. Read more
A grim photograph from occupied Soviet Karelia showing local civilians forced to collect and transport the bodies of fallen Red Army soldiers for burial following the battles of 1941. Read more
A horrifying 1941 photograph showing dead Soviet civilians and soldiers beside a destroyed convoy during the German invasion of the Soviet Union. Read more
Residents of a liberated Czech town burn a Nazi flag before Red Army soldiers during celebrations marking the end of German occupation in the summer of 1945. Read more
Soviet infantry entrenched along the Eastern bank of the Western Dvina River fires a Maxim machine gun toward German positions during the liberation of Vitebsk in June 1944. Read more